Western Michigan is Division I, as Mike M. guessed. It is indeed in the Mid-American Confernce with Miami, Kent, Bowling Green (and non-Division I hockey schools such as Ohio University, Toledo, Central Michigan and Ball State (Indiana). Ferris State, on the other hand, is Division II in all sports but hockey, like my own institution, Michigan Tech and LSSU. On the possibility raised that schools such as Northern Michigan may be stacking the deck by putting all their resources into (well, most of them) into hockey, this could possibly be levelled at LSSU, since the Lakers do not have a football program. The other Michigan schools who are Division II in all but hockey all have football, which is even more expensive than hockey--and nowhere near the revenue generator that hockey is, meaning that the NET investment in hockey as a proportion of the athletic expenditures is actually rather small. ********************************************************************** * Steve Christopher, NMU [log in to unmask] - GO CATS! * * * * * * NCAA Division I Hockey National Champions 1990-91 * "WE'VE * * * NCAA Division I Hockey Final Eight 1991-92 * ONLY * * * NCAA Division I Hockey Final Eight 1992-93 * JUST * * * WCHA League Champions 1990-91 * BEGUN"* * * WCHA Playoff Champions 1988-89/1990-91/1991-92 * * * * * **********************************************************************